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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
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Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 19h
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
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The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 20h
On Friday, March 6, CMS welcomes Siobhain Bly Calkin of Carleton University's English Department to present "Writing Passion Relic Agency in Pilgrim Tales of Christian-Muslim Contexts". Please register to attend in person via Zoom, or in person, joining us for a Convivial lunch! uoft.me/SBC
sketch from a medieval manuscript of a map and buildings

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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 1d
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's a fun one! Kesselring, "Should 'Witches' Receive Posthumous Pardons?" (2022) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2022/01/03/s...
Should ‘Witches’ Receive Posthumous Pardons?
Upon news of a potential pardon for people convicted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act of 1563, this post asks what such pardons are for in the present and what they might do to popular understandi…
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 1d
New #OpenAccess #HistMed article by our CHSTM colleague Dr Meng Zhang, on compulsory masking and the role of barbers in 1930s China.

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Protest From Unexpected Corners: Barbers, Labour Unions, and Compulsory Masking in Modern China, 1930s–1940s
Abstract. This article examines resistance from below to compulsory masking in modern China, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Initially marginalised and stigma
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 1d
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 1d
February 23 is the deadline to apply for Intermediate Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 5–25, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. All course fees, meals, and lodging are sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social.

Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 3d
The really appalling part is that the supposedly “originalist” justices on the Supreme court completely ignored both the text of the constitution and the history.
They stand exposed.
15 Historians File Amicus Brief in Trump v. US Debunking Immunity Claim
Historians show that history doesn’t support presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
www.brennancenter.org

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 4d
All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies Research Seminar poster that says Elaine Treharne (Stanford): Small Details, Big Data: Male and Female Scribal Communities in a Thirteenth-century Mortuary Roll Key words: Professional scribes in the Middle Ages. Women scribes and women’s literacy. Handwriting. Layout, punctuation, abbreviation, style, and decoration. Digital tools for ‘everyday writing’. Communities of literacy. Tuesday 10 February, 5.30 pm, Laidlaw Library, University of Leeds, Level 1 Seminar Room (hybrid) To attend both online and in-person please register at https://forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 4d
Also one particularly well-known article is Tomi's "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society" (FROM 1990!!) which talks about the loss of inheritance rights among women in warrior families and the shift towards single-heir, male-heir practices. www.jstor.org/stable/179066
Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society on JSTOR
Hitomi Tonomura, Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul., 1990), pp. 592-623
www.jstor.org

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 4d
There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...
Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says
‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class
www.the-independent.com

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 5d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 5d
My latest post is up! Enjoy.

Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/05/a...
Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 5 February 2026. The church tried its best to vilify social mobility in late medieval England, encouraging good Christians to embrace their place in society (no matter how…
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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 7d
Sara M. Butler @sarabutler.bsky.social presented her intriguing research on 13th century inquests of hate and spite. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this fascinating topic which opens a window to medieval societies.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d
No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century...
#history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy
A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread: Eat Early in a Morning Fasting ... (1756) By Nicholas Robinson

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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 8d
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Watson, "Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners" (2021): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/12/16/s...
Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners
By Cassie Watson; posted 16 December 2021. Despite the now well-established academic interest in homicide, criminal justice historians have paid relatively little attention to a sub-group of murder…
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 10d
Aleksander Pluskowski's new book, The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, is now out from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Here, Aleks tells us more about the historical sites that are important to his book www.medievalists.net/2026/01/plac... #medieval #historybooks
From Holy War to Heritage: Places to Visit if You Want to Understand the Baltic Crusades - Medievalists.net
Stone castles, brick churches, and orderly new towns still line the Baltic coast—evidence of how the Baltic Crusades remade a medieval frontier. Aleksander Pluskowski traces the routes of conquest…
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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 11d
I am late to this but I am very sad to learn of the death of my former colleague and friend, Tom Freeman, known to many as THE expert on Foxe's Book of Martyrs, but of so many other early modern and, indeed, medieval topics. And of Diet Coke.

www.essex.ac.uk/news/2019/03...
Historian in focus: Thomas Freeman | University of Essex
www.essex.ac.uk

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 12d
JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 12d
A couple of new open-access titles of possible interest to scholars of medieval Europe -- this one on merchants, legal pluralism, and predictability in commerce: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #MedievalSky
Cover image for "How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe," edited by Gregor Rohmann and Ulla Kypta.

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 13d
JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb

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Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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